{"id":573885233,"date":"2013-09-01T20:30:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T01:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573885233"},"modified":"2013-09-06T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T05:54:11","slug":"catching-up-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/09\/01\/catching-up-115\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly post that puts extra pictures up instead of anything terribly substantive. So let&#8217;s get on with it, then.<\/p>\n<p>For as long as I&#8217;ve had this I&#8217;ve wondered about the team that counted out the information spaces. How many letters did they need? Surely the design was based on something inherently practical like dashboard width and availability, but I&#8217;ve always liked to think it was about making sure the right artists&#8217; names would be properly displayed. So when the words work out just right, like half this band&#8217;s name, it makes me smile:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept13\/sept31.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The library will be closed tomorrow for bacon:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept13\/sept32.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Met this gentleman the other day. He gave me directions when I was off on some new road on my bicycle. He gave me his card and said to call him if I needed help. On the front his title was listed as Grandbuddy. On the back was this picture. It isn&#8217;t the easiest thing to see in this shot, but all the kids are wearing mustaches, too:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept13\/sept33.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Nothing about this makes any sense, and should be properly disposed of immediately. The guy was at Texas A&#038;M, signing Alabama headshots for an Auburn restaurant and saying Aloha. That&#8217;s Dennis Franchione for you:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept13\/sept34.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>For reasons that were never made clear, someone brought Ric Flair&#8217;s championship belt to the tailgate yesterday. People were wearing it. Strangers were stopping by offering to buy it. It was a legitimately heavy piece of bling:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept13\/sept35.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly post that puts extra pictures up instead of anything terribly substantive. So let&#8217;s get on with it, then. For as long as I&#8217;ve had this I&#8217;ve wondered about the team that counted out the information spaces. How many letters did they need? Surely the design was based on something inherently practical like dashboard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573885233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573885233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573885233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573885233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573885235,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573885233\/revisions\/573885235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573885233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573885233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573885233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}